Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part XIX
Here are some of my articles, speeches and interviews from the past three weeks, otherwise known as a millennium in Trump Time… How Data Can Save Us From…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Encouraging Participation without Coercing Participation
We take up from where we left off on November 8th when anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her overview of her new pedagogical research project in collaboration…
Dump by Anne Berg
South Africa, 1994. Apartheid before, democracy after. Nonetheless, obstinate continuities stretch across this important rupture. Bisasar Road Landfill, the largest registered landfill on the A…
anthro in the news 11/13/17
Chitimacha baskets from Louisiana. Credit: National Museum of the American Indian, Joseph Keppler Collection, gift of Dr. Margaret J. Sharpe. http://tinyurl.com/y9zbwwt4 ancestry rights and wrongs Th…
The end of (the capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchal hate-full order of) the world, a survival guide:
This piece originally appeared as a Twitter essay I published on November 4, 2017. I am re-posting it here with minimal edits to improve clarity and formatting. fossilized…
The end of (the capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchal hate-full order of) the world, a survival guide:
This piece originally appeared as a Twitter essay I published on November 4, 2017. I am re-posting it here with minimal edits to improve clarity and formatting. fossilized…
Moving the Circular Economy Beyond Alchemy
This review of a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology titled, “Exploring the Circular Economy” is a virtual tour of circular economy definitions and current directions.…
Read-along-with-Anne: The Impossible 1
Kia ora. Kei to pēhea koutou? For the next ten weeks of weekdays–that’s 55 days in total–I’ll be reading & writing about each piece in Paul Loeb’s edited…
With summer comes hope
It’s Monday morning and I’m working at home, looking out at the valley, thinking that the year is coming to an end and I don’t know where it…
Conditions & Potentials of Human Life
What is Anthropology? In each generation, the question of “What is Anthropology?” must be answered anew. In 2017, Tim Ingold’s Anthropology and/as Education provides a summation of a…
Do you remember when Australia did this for CHOGM? So its not just a ‘commonwealth’ thing.
Urban beauty. I dunno if I am more disgusted by this event with Ivanka or the WP’ article’s failure to do proper comparative memory work – since I…
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
Bidding “bon voyage” to la pensée sauvage: Why the “Savage Minds” name change couldn’t come soon enough
I never thought I would be guest-blogging for an internet publication whose name was (once) a racial slur directed at me and my ancestors. For many years now,…
Red Tape – Local/Global Culture Visual
Video of a talk with Chris Pinney, Rian Hughes and others http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/2012_02.html Local/Global: The role of culture in the creation and reception of visual communication Performing Art L…
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals: The right hand knows what the left hand is doing.
This post by Julie Raymond is part a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. In 2015, the…
Links & Contents I Liked 258
Hi all, Not much to report-the first part of the semester is done and lost of assignments are ready for reading and grading… Development news: Humanitarian Evidence Week;…
New journal: Public Anthropologist
Dear Allies, we are happy to share with you the news about the launch of the new journal Public Anthropologist. Founded by our ally Antonio De Lauri and published by…
AAA at Global Climate Change Conference – “We’re Still In”
This post, the first in a series from the members of the AAA delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, was authored by Shirley Fiske. …
Mit dem Harvard-Mädchen zum Erfolg?
Wer in China einen guten Hochschulabschluss erlangt, dem stehen in der Regel alle Türen offen. Um ihren Kindern die beste Bildung zu ermöglichen zogen und ziehen Eltern Bildungsratgeber…
Gerechtigkeit für Santiago Maldonado.
Santiago Maldonado, der am 1. August 2017 im Süden Argentiniens verschwand, ist am 17. Oktober in einem Fluss gefunden worden. Besser gesagt: sein lebloser Körper. Ich schreibe diesen…
FOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE
Ahead of the upcoming AAA annual meeting, here’s a roundup of food and policy news from around the globe: In Brazil, an innovative yet controversial new flour made from…
Allegra Calling for Reviews Editor!
Allegra is looking for a new reviews editor to take over the responsibilities of our Ally Judith Beyer who needs a break to concentrate on the ‘compulsory’ writing of her…
The climate has changed before. But this is different – look at the archeological record
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial The United States…
The climate has changed before. But this is different – look at the archeological record
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial The United States…